The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-02-22
Fay i'm Trouble.

/ Inc new DIX w Orlu VIII De reaQ
with particular interest by the Sedalia
dudes who were smitten by the
charms of Fay Templeton during her
visits to this city. She should come
back to Missouri where she is, by a
certain class, appreciated. Fay
| Templeton, whose last appearance be
fore the New York public was made
in 'EvangelIne," at the Fourteenth
Street Theater, is playing leading
lady iu novel conrt proceeding be-
fore Chief Justice Coleridge and Mr..
Justice Stephens. She obtained yes
terday an injunction to compel George
Edwardes. proprietor of the
Gaiety Theater, to retain her
in the case of the burlesque
Monte Cristo, Jr.," Mr.. Edwardes
was taken completely by surprise, de-
claring that he knew nothing of the
proceeding until he was served with
the injunction this evening. He will
Immediately move to have the in
junction dissolved, and has employed
George Lewis as his solicitor. Hiss
Templeton, it appears, first requested
Mr.. Lewis to take charge of her case,
but he refused. Mr.. Edwardes gave
Miss Templeton the usual two weeks
notice of discharge, and in her aft
divit she admits that she received it,
but she declared she had complied
with all the rules of the theatre, had
given satisfaction to the public, and
therefore she denlined to accept the
notice. The novel feature of the case,
is the attempt to compel manager to
keep in his company whom he does
not want, after he has given her the
customary notice that he no longer
requires her services. The temporary
injunction will be dissolved at once
Mr.. Edwardes and his friends say
that Miss Templeton has not given
satisfaction from the first. When she
applied for employment, rep
reservations we're made to
them of what was declared to
have been her great success in New
York, but at the opening night of
Monte Christie, Jr.," she was Missed
because of the indecency of her song
called 81 Like It," and she got
through tie evening with the greatest
difficulty. She had the second of the
female roles of the piece, but has not
been regarded as filling it properly.
The principal reasons, however, which
Mr.. Edwardes had for giving her
notice of discharge was that the Lord
Chamberlain objected to her
dress on the ground that it was
indecent and so informed Mr. Ed
wards. The stage manager was in
structed to provide Miss Templeton
with scarf to wear and thus relieve |
the situation somewhat, but this she |
refused to wear in the manner pre- |
scribed and indeed, objected most We
hemently to wearing the scarf at all |
Otherwise it is said she has made her.
self very disagreeable about the thea
ter. In all her dOings at the Gaiety, |
Miss Templeton has been aided and
sbetted by Howell Osborn, who is said
to have instigated the proceedings
taken by Miss Templeten to-day, and |
joins her in the threats that she made
against Mr.. Edwardes because of her
MIR. .wardes said to-nigh that he
was entirely powerless to stop Miss
Templeton from playing until the
injunction is Dissolved, even though
she should 60 on the stage with even
a more repr ehensible costume. He had
offered to pay her a salary of s75
week, he said, to the end of the run
of Monte Cristo, Jr.," but
Miss Templeton had declared that
she would play her part in
her own way no matter if the LORI
Chamberlain did object. The result
Of the case is awaited with much In
terest. Miss Templeton came on the
stage tonight without the silk scarf
provided by the stage manager, but
was received in silence by the audi
ence, while the other principals of tue
company were loudly cheered. Miss
Billie Barlow is to take Miss Temple
800, x~1o,o - a Kill L.